(42 quotes found)
“It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.”
William Shakespeare
“The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate”
Christopher Fry
“The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility”
Charles Lamb
“All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.”
Clive Bell
“In the process of trial and error, Our failed attempts are meant to destroy arrogance and provoke humility.”
Master Jin Kwon
“Not to be provoked is best; but if moved, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last”
William Penn
“Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.”
Charlotte L. Forten Grimke
“In that sense, he didn't sit still. He tried in various ways to stimulate and even provoke the department.”
William Shaffer
“They'll do anything to provoke the stars. They really are stalkers.”
Warren Cowan
“Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?" After they laughed at me a few times they began requesting the hillbilly stuff and enjoyed dancing to it.”
Chuck Berry
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